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Occam's razor, in this situation, is that the corporate entity who profits from collected data while deceiving it's product into perceiving itself as a "customer" might, in fact be... collecting data from its product to sell to it's customers.



The core tenet of the principle is that the more entities you have to posit in any given postulate, the more assumptions you have to make, the less likely it is to be true.

I was making the point that I have to assume much less to make the statement that companies are not passively recording, tokenizing, and analyzing every conversation users have without their consent.




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